Word: sphincter
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...thousands of Bostonians who were able to fork-out ten to 12 bucks for the ticket. Add to this, Harvard's Soldier Field Stadium. This is the same place thousands of graying, pudgy Harvard and Yale alumni sit each year in racoon coats drinking Johnny Walker Red, restraining their sphincter muscles and occasionally letting out quiet moans of excitement as they relive their repressed and dignified college days...
...latest advance in ulcer surgery is still simpler, less mutilating, and therefore "more elegant" by Dr. Moore's definition. This consists of "pyloroplasty," or widening the gate valve between stomach and duodenum by slitting its muscular ring, or "sphincter" (fourth diagram). The tissue is stretched, then the slit is closed at right angles. Such operations (there are several variants) had been around since 1886, but not until 1947 did Dr. Joseph Weinberg of the Long Beach (Calif.) VA Hospital try the promising combination of vagotomy and pyloroplasty. A vagotomy by itself tends to make the stomach flaccid so that...
...believe," said the vulture primly, "that whatever is worth doing is worth doing well." He gave Prometheus a dirty look and went back to work. But he stayed an hour overtime that day, worked clean through the liver, and got a good start on the pyloric sphincter. Prometheus went right on thinking about moral uplift, but he was careful to do so in silence...
B.C.M. now had a perfectly healthy (although slightly smaller) new bladder. The plastic bag was deflated and, with its tubes, pulled out through the urethra and the incision without further surgery. Since the operation had not touched the small sphincter muscle that opens and closes the entrance to the urethra, the patient had no difficulty in controlling his new bladder...
...mouth the food passes through the oesophagus to the stomach, which is a hollow muscular organ, and provided with a number of glands which produce the gastric juice. The muscles of the stomach are described as consisting of three layers. At the lower opening is a muscle called the sphincter, which opens and shuts the outlet into the intestines. The mucous membrane lining the stomach is continuous with that in the mouth, running along down through the oesophagus. When the stomach is empty it is thrown into folds, which become smooth as it fills up. Alexis St. Martin...